A seriocomic show airing on NBC from 2000–04 about a hotshot New York attorney named Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh) who, following a painful divorce, moves back to his little home town of Stuckeyville, Ohio, buys the local bowling alley, and runs it in conjunction with his law firm.

Basically Northern Exposure without the Fish out of Water elements, this show went for a sense of eccentric whimsy, which was usually genuine and smile-inducing ("Hey! You like sex? Come to the Festival of Ducks!").

Had an odd first episode - the entirety of the pilot was presented as a "Previously On..." intro and they started with episode 2.

Joisey: Exterior Stuckeyville town scenes were filmed in Westfield NJ, some locals were hired as "Stuckeyville Extras".

Never Win the Lottery: One of Ed's cases concerned co-workers being sued after they tricked a fellow worker into thinking he had won the lottery - who then told off the Boss and quit his job before he found out that he hadn't.

Nobody Over Fifty Is Gay: Averted with the elderly and cantankerous Charlie Hudson, who is somewhere in his seventies (and dying). His lover is about the same age.

Shout-Out: The name of Ed's old law firm (Farmer & Sheehan) is an in-joke reference to "Late Show with David Letterman" stagehands Pat Farmer and Kenny Sheehan. (The series was produced by Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants.)

Villainy-Free Villain: Dennis Martino, the principal who (despite very early appearances to the contrary) is not a bad guy. But he is Ed's romantic rival for Carol over a season and a half. He is too serious to ever have fun, making it clear (especially with every other significant character being fun-loving) that Carol would be making a big mistake if she married him. But she comes extremely close to doing so.

What Have We Ear?: Stuckeyville Sam does this to Ed at the end of the episode "The World of Possibility".

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